God’s Imminence

Topic Notes

• WELCOME
• God’s imminence (nearness)
• Jeff’s sled story
• Proximity is a huge deal
• How close is God to us
• Psalm 139:7
• Dave and his hypothetical/rhetorical
• Psalm 139:8
• Psalm 139:9-10
• There is no place on Earth that you can go to get away from God
• Psalm 139:11-12
• GOD IS VERY NEAR!
• God’s presence is everywhere
• A.W. Tozer’s bucket/ocean analogy
• This is God’s relationship to the Universe
• God penetrates EVERYTHING
• Why does God sometimes feel so far away?
• A lesson from Greek Mythology: Dionysus
• 1 Kings 8:27
• God is too big to be contained
• Hosea 11:9
• God is: Perfect, Sinless and always does what is right
• Dave and Jeff: Sinners and imperfect
• A.W. Tozer – Communing with animals?
• The natures of fish and man / man and God
• It’s not a matter of being closer to God, but to have fellowship with God, we need a DIFFERENT NATURE.
• This is why scripture talks about becoming a new creation
• Jeff and his relationship with a fish
• God became man… so He could get to know us!
• Dave and his pet fish
• We can’t have a relationship with God because we are to dissimilar
• So the answer is to CHANGE OUR NATURE
• John 3:19-21
• The primary reason we don’t sense the presence of God is because we DON’T WANT to sense the presence of God.
• 1 John 1:5-7
• We must desire God in order to change our nature
• What is ‘walking in the light’?

Bible Contradiction

via thoughtcatalog.com
Submission to God or the Government
1 Peter 2:13 vs. Acts 5:29

Listener Question

“I was very upset one day and I told a friend about it and said that I knew if I could just calm down enough to pray I’d feel better. My friend said that it’s prayer that changes you, not God. Is that true or is there more to it?”

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